The use of emojis in text messages is regularly derided as something millennials rely on too much. But they're still wildly popular — at least, according to Emojipedia's real-time tracker. Emojipedia ...

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

Enigmatriz is a digital artist who combines the glyphs, code, characters and symbols of the average keyboard into a plethora of imagery in these imaginative collages. The Argentina-based digital ...

Ska heads have been waiting for this: A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji. Other ...

On September 19, 1982, Scott Elliot Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, created the first emoticons. His objective was to enable people to distinguish the tone of messages on ...

Beauty brand Dove is calling on communities to help convince decision makers that representation of natural and protective hairstyles should be added to the universal emoji library. The brand has ...

Emojis can help people share messages over technology, but it is not a perfect form of communication, shared Mason Kamana Allred. BYU–Hawaii Assistant Professor Mason Kamana Allred advised people to ...

When filmmaker Theo Schear saw harpist Mary Lattimore performing by the river in Austin, Texas in 2019, he was transfixed. "It was this really magical performance. The harp was just beautiful in the ...

If the shark emoji on your phone is anatomically correct, thank Emily Simpson. The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “content strategist” has made it her mission to ensure that emoji, the universal lingo of our ...